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The Sims Carnival
The Sims Carnival was a casual games series created by Electronic Arts. The Sims Carnival had two separate product lines. First, it was an online community of crowd-sourced games. Second, it was a line of packaged game titles sold via retail stores and digital download.
SimsCarnival.com was an online community centered on users playing, creating and sharing games.
The online community was supported by a suite of game creation tools, audio and graphic asset packs, a YouTube-style website with a leaderboard and other social features, first-party games, ongoing content releases, and user-generated games across many genres (e.g. sports, puzzles, adventure games, racing games, tower defense games, and Angry Birds-style games).
Three game creation tools—The Wizard, The Swapper and The Game Creators—assisted the players with game design. The Wizard led players through the process of creating a game step-by-step with intuitive options designed to help them create their own game (e.g., make their own Tower Defense game) with a library of game genres to choose from. The Swapper let players customize existing games – or newly made games from The Wizard — with their own selection of images, aiding in game personalization. With The Game Creator, and its library of images, animations and sounds, individuals could create a game from scratch or customize another player's creation.
Because the games were "open source", players could take someone else's creation, give the original creators attributions and customize the games as they see fit (e.g., apply different graphics and storyline).
SimsCarnival.com debuted at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in February 2008 with a keynote speech by the studio head of The Sims. The service ceased in January 2011.
Two packaged game titles were announced around December 2007, and were available for download on the EA Link site. Outside of the shared brand name, there was no connection between SimsCarnival.com and these two packaged game titles (e.g. no user-generated games in these two titles).
A Sim themed shoot 'em up.
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The Sims Carnival
The Sims Carnival was a casual games series created by Electronic Arts. The Sims Carnival had two separate product lines. First, it was an online community of crowd-sourced games. Second, it was a line of packaged game titles sold via retail stores and digital download.
SimsCarnival.com was an online community centered on users playing, creating and sharing games.
The online community was supported by a suite of game creation tools, audio and graphic asset packs, a YouTube-style website with a leaderboard and other social features, first-party games, ongoing content releases, and user-generated games across many genres (e.g. sports, puzzles, adventure games, racing games, tower defense games, and Angry Birds-style games).
Three game creation tools—The Wizard, The Swapper and The Game Creators—assisted the players with game design. The Wizard led players through the process of creating a game step-by-step with intuitive options designed to help them create their own game (e.g., make their own Tower Defense game) with a library of game genres to choose from. The Swapper let players customize existing games – or newly made games from The Wizard — with their own selection of images, aiding in game personalization. With The Game Creator, and its library of images, animations and sounds, individuals could create a game from scratch or customize another player's creation.
Because the games were "open source", players could take someone else's creation, give the original creators attributions and customize the games as they see fit (e.g., apply different graphics and storyline).
SimsCarnival.com debuted at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in February 2008 with a keynote speech by the studio head of The Sims. The service ceased in January 2011.
Two packaged game titles were announced around December 2007, and were available for download on the EA Link site. Outside of the shared brand name, there was no connection between SimsCarnival.com and these two packaged game titles (e.g. no user-generated games in these two titles).
A Sim themed shoot 'em up.